When workers organized unions and forced management to recognize that they were not object, theorists of formal organizations began to revise the________________?

Correct answer: A. both a and b

  • A. both a and b
  • B. scientific management approach
  • C. human relations approach
  • D. classical theory

Explanation

Unionisation challenged the view of workers as mere instruments of production and encouraged revisions to both classical organisation theory and its scientific-management approach. The human-relations approach was itself one of the later responses to these limitations.

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